Clothes-rack attachment



(No Model.)

P. W. WEIS.

CLOTHES RAGK'ATTAOHMENT.

No. 372,883. Patented Nov. 8, 1887.

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FRANCIS W. WEIS, OF LOUISA, KENTUCKY.

CLOTH ES-RACK ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,883, dated November 8; 1887.

Application filed April 14, 1887.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS W. Wnrs, of Louisa, in the county of Lawrence and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and Improved Olothes-Rackj Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved clothes-rack for attachment to bedsteads, walls, and other supports, so constructed and arranged that it can be easily swung out from its support for use, will be firmly supported in such outer position, and can be as readily folded back out of the way, while providing a convenient means for hanging up clothes.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and then definitely claimed.

Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

by screws or otherwise.

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustratingmy improved clothes-rack attach ment applied to a bedstead and in position for use. Fig. 2is a central sectional plan view illustrating the attachment swung back out of the way. Fig. 3 is a detail view of certain parts hereinafter described.

A designates the head-frame of a bed to which the invention has been applied. B designates a metal or other disk secured to the vertical frameA at the edge portion thereof, and provided with oppositely-projecting lugs G D, which are fastened to the frame The fixed disk B is provided with a concentric annular ridge, E, which rides in a corresponding annular groove, F, formed in the inner face of an onter disk, G,which is mounted to turn on the face of the fixed disk, andv is held thereto by a screwpivot, H, passed centrally through both disks into the frame A. A lug, I, projectsinwardly from the edge of the rotary disk G, and is adapted to strike the fixed lugs O D, which thus form stops to limit the rotation of the disk G in either direction. An eye, K, pro- 5o jects from the periphery of the movable'disk Serial No. 234,780. (No model.)

G, and is pivoted in the forked end of a'rack, L,"by a pin, M, thus adaptingthe rack to turn over with the disk G and fold against the outer face of the same, as shown in Fig. 2. Pins, hooks, or equivalent devices, 0, project from the upper and lower sides of the rack, and from them the clothes are suspended, as usual. The outer end of the rack is also forked to embrace loosely an eye, P, pivoted thereto and projecting centrally from the inner face of a double-bowed spreader, Q, from which coats, jackets, &c., may be hung without wrinkling. The spreader is thus adapted to fold against the rack when the latter is folded back out of the way, as in Fig. 2.

A cheap and convenient device is thus obtained which can be readily applied or re moved from its support.

Both the rack and spreader being reversible, the attachment can be used on either the right or left hand side of the support A, the stop 0 serving as the supporting-stop in the former case, as shown in Fig. 1, and the stop D as such in the latter case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination,with the support A, of the rack L, the pivot H, by which it is arranged to swing in the plane of the face of the support, and a spreader pivoted to swing on the rack in a plane at right angles to that in which the rack swings, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the fixed disk having a concentric ridge, the movable disk having a corresponding groove, the fixed stops, and the stop-lug on the movable disk, of a rack on the movable disk, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination of the support A, the fixed plate E, the pivotal disk or base G, the

rack L, pivotally connected to the disk or R. T. BURNS,

D. J. BURQHETT. 

